FRANCE'S TRAVEL REGULATIONS.
A Visit to Provinces from Paris,most crowded day, and the trains
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUMT
Germans Tried to "Shell Red Cross Trala
The Americans left on the
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"American Church."
of time. The trains, it should be AN EXCITING JOURNEY. asid, to the company's credit, had been doubled, and were waiting. Here, too, there has been mach exaggeration, though it was the were unable to handle all the baggage. Late comers, mostly
Landon, May 7.-In an eventful The spacial correspondent of men travelling on business, civil the New York Evening Post or military, had to stand in the flight from Jassy, the Rumanian writes from Paris under date of passages, since women and child. capital, the American Bed Cross April 15 as follows:-I left Parie ren oime early sad occupied all Mission to Bamanis, which now has arrived in London, escaped by the through train for the the rats.
This exodos traffic differed only from Odeasa thirty-six hours western and sonthero Atlantic! ports the week after the bombard- in intensity, and notin kind, from before the Germans entered it, ment of the city by the long-die- what has been going on ever since only to be fired upon by a Ger At that time I was man battery in the Ukraine, 200 tance cannon had begun. My January. military pare for the zone of the deterred from going down to miles north of the famous Black armies was not meant to apply in Marseilles and the sun by the fact Sea port. The German shella did Paris, which is, as it has been all that a week or ten days' time was no damage to the Bed Cross train, along, an open city, under civil needed to secure a reserved seat falling about a half a mile from authority. This is so much the for the all-night and sometimes. The shelling lasted fire minutes, When the Mission left Jassy, it osse that the railway offices have all-day trip, and even then with been selling their tickets for every the risk of having to stand up was known that the journey would direction, except the sotual battle. a good part of the way. In spite probably be dangerous. It was frost, without veryfying firet that of the military traffic, troops and known that the Germans wore Gvernment has within fifty or sixty miles of the traveller hen the police "safe transport, conduct," which has bean de encouraged the asnal trains of the Odessa, and that their advance manded by the nominal regulation Riviers season to resume. Still, partice might be encountered ever since the war began. one of our correspondants, who
engers on the train were officers This alone shows how little was going to inspect the convales along the line. Most of the pass- militery fasa and feather worry cent stations for the Allied sol and privates of the French Milli Chinese who Belonged to the the civil population in France. diera and officers in the South, tary Hission to Bumanis, and it Still, when I reached my destina-thought it advisable to take was hardly to be expected that Ger tion at a provincial town where only hand lugesge, and be ready man or guerrilla Laude would
Before Mr. E. D.-O. Wolfe, s war works were going on, the waiting for his train some houremake any carful distinction in police commissary civil ausbead of time. I find in all this favour of a few, American Red the Police Court this morning, a Chicase was charged with being thority-to whom I presented my only what I heard two years ago Crows uniforms. papers for the arrival stamp from my Paris police commissary,
richthird of six trains which carried in possession of a quantity of opium over and above that allow. remarked on the absence of the trying to explain to regulation departare stamp of American certain official inter- the Allied Missions from Jayed. Defendant was represented the commissary of my Paris re- fernces with bis private con- The first train left at noon on by Mr. P. W. Goldring.
"Monsieur, we are March 9, and the other traine sidence. For the sake of regular-veniences.
A lutong said be arrested followed at intervala of two defendant in Queen's Road, while ity, he inscribed in red ink the in a state of war!"
In the corner of my compart three hours. Each train he was carrying a parcel, Da the fact that I came on a profes sional mission, with credentials ment, which had eigh: acate, one provided with food for a month. the parcel being opened she epiam from the Foreign Office, was occupied by a pleasant faced There was no dining-car, and the
was found concealed in paddy I heard him losing his Latin middle-aged woman in black food was cooked io two military asks. altogether with an aged American carying a stout child of three or food kitobene abandoned by lady who had come down from faren ber knees. I naturally sup. Russian troops and carried on a Paris because her house was in peard her to be the mother, but freight car on the and of the the quarter intermittently under the child addressed "a younger, train. Three other freight cars,
One of the long-distance capable looking woman who was loaded with raile, ties, and railway him five seld, and he had five gun's bombe which are email and waiting to see
( se iron, also were carried, so that not very explosive, bat demolish "Mamma!" To my look of sarthe road-bed could be repaired by their weight, had fallen in prise, the elder woman said quickly in case of accident or in front of her door, She declared proudly: "I am grandma!" case the Germans bad torn up to the provincial commissary: They explained that seroplanes the line.
the "Here I am, anyway, and I can's twice dropped bombe in their go back to Paris just to get a neighbourhood, and they thought Americans travelled was one of paper stamped. Why didn't they it better to take the child away, the most extraordinary combine tell me there ?"
The mother had to remain to tions of railway rolling stook ever What women with Govern carry on the business of the seen. Americans, doctors, and ments wish! And the police father, who has been fighting at officers, had a third-class sleeping official banged his stamp down on the frant since the beginning of car, while the nurses had s her permit to stop and stay where the war. The grandmother and second-class sleeper. Both care she was. She was not the first of child were going to a seaside were of ancient Russian make, her kind he had seen. Another town, where they were told and without water supply or day I saw a Brooklyn merchant board was cheap, but where heating facilities. The French and his wife in the same predica they had no acquaintances.officers had sleeping cara, some ment. Perhaps the French, who & civil official and his wife, Bussian and some Romanian, but hand was charged at the Thames are more used to taking, cat who were going to the same the privates were compelled to Police Court with being an official papers, observe the regala-town which they knew, interested get along with ordinary freight absentee, is waa stated he had tions better. The Paris police themselves Fo that the two women care of nondescript types, and been twenty months in hospital authorities have now reminded were reassured for the all-night two or three indiferent passenger and that more than forty pieces all citizens that they must have journey with only strangers at cars; The engine which "palled at famale flesh had been grafted
the train dated back to 1876, on one of his legs. they identity papera properly the end. stamped before leaving one civil Just before the time for the end burned only wood, which jurisdiction for another daring train to start, a railway man was picked up along the way. An elder- war time.
passed to say that an air raid The engineer was
fire.
them
The
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Mr. Goldring said his client bad
his cooli. The law allowed
bought the oplem for the use of
smonot.
TRAMWAY RETURNS,
The following is the approxi mate statement of the Hong- kong Tramway Company's traffic" receipts for the week ending 29th June, 1918:
This Year: Last Year: Decree
Increase:
Receipta for work.
Aggregate Receipts for 28 weeks.
$16,099 348 213 13,365 344,649
2,734 3 584
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mace and eight cadaraens.
WA Inspector Kent asïd thers were eight candareene in excess of the Mr. Goldring said the five pace, eight candareens were found in another box which did not belong to defendant.
Defendant, when sworn, asid be belonged to "the American Church." He had bought the opiam for his coolies.
Defendant was discharged.
Forty Pieces of Fiesta When a soldier with only one
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THE ROBERT DOLLAR COY. ΤΗΣ
HE Steamship
*MELVILLE DOLLAR," having arrived on June 27th 1918, from Vancouver, consign- ees of cargo are hereby notified at their risk into the hazardous that their cargo is being landed and/or extra bazardous godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co, and stored at consignee's risk..
All claims must be preecated within a month of the steamer's arrival bere, after which they cannot be recognized. No claims will be admitted after the gooda
have left the godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after July 4th 1918 will be subject
to ront.
will be effected.
No Fire insurance whatever
Consignees are requested tɗ send in their bills of lading for counter-signature.
THE ROBERT DOLLAR COY.
Agents. Hongkong, 2nd July, 1918.
It has taken nearly four years alert was ander way, The two ly Russian of Bolshevik opinion, was followed quickly by a load of war and the presence of British women asid good-bye, the mother and had to be fed with rubles and explosion, ass shell barst in a and American armies at ecattered gave a last kiss to her little girl, cognac almost sa frequently as field about half a mile from the bases of the rear, and therebying wistfully:" She will not the engine required wood. He moring train. The shell was renewed drives of the enemy, to miss me with her grandmother" carried his family slong with him followed by many others during enforce such necessary regula--and, without any theatrical in a box car next to the engine, the ensuing five minutes. It tione, even where useless and emotion, barried, away into the and, whenever meals.or other was suppored the train had come indiscreet and spying travellere dark and danger to keep the domestic affairs required bis within eight of a distant German are zightly to be feared. Once home frea burning. A Swiss attention, he stopped the train observation post, which again, just as food restrictions lady on her way to Americs re- and went "home" to his box-sar. trying to direct the fire of its Jast outside Odessa, the en- batteries on the railway track. have been applied very moderate marked audibly: "And yet they ly in France, so the military ex tell us the French have no home gineer became dimatisfied with Military men on board declare igencies have affected very mildly life!"
the flow of rables and cognac and the shelle were 6.9-inch or larger.
KISEN KAISHA. the civil and even the foreign The conductors in our train went on a strike. The French The range was a little too great
TOYO resson with for the German guna, however, population. We have had always were women, good nstared and officers tried to
obda-and all the shells fell short.
B.B *SHINYO MABU," enough to eat, and we travel expert in settling the disputes of bim, but he
and departed with Arriving at the station of easily wherever it is at all the crowding passengers about rate, reasons ble
should go. places reserved for too confident the engine and the box-car, Doinskaia, the Americane were From SAN FRANCISCO VIA
the Bolshevik In the first days of long-die- late comers and occupied by leaving the remainder of the train informed by tance bombardment, the migra- earlier birds. They laid down standing on the main line. Ha authorities that a battle was in HONOLULU, JAPAN, PORTS, tion of Parisiane who are not the law sharply when resistance had chosen rather a critical time, progress to the north. The train particularly useful at home and was made. In general, the law for reports were current that the then turned from its scheduled have mesce to live elsewhere, was abidingness of the French, who Germans were likely to reach the route and proceeded south-east, rather encouraged. The bombard- are a routine people following railway at say moment. After returning to its northward route ment has really touched only & accepted rules, was sufficient. So some delay the French succeeded after a long detour. For the next few quarters of the city, keeping we rolled pescefally into the in finding another engineer and forty-eight hours hardly an hour to about the same line of fire. night toward Easter day, when engine, and the train proceeded. passed without rumours of danger Except for the distressing shot Parisians are supposed to bave In fact, German battalions from Germans or guerrilla bands. on Good Friday, which tumbled been at the height of their exodus, entered Odessa only thirty-six At Karek the Americans were down the heavy stone-vaulted Some who were there and some hours after the Americans passed greeted enthusiastically by several thousand Bohemian troops, who roof of an ancient cburgh on who were nct might learn from through the city. the heads of the worshippers, it what the "moral" of French The striker apparently suffered qriginally had been prisoners with sericus loss of life, the men and women at the rear really a change of heart soon after he captured from the Germans, but popolation has not suffered s8, 19, much from this fantastic bom- bardment as from the air raids! that went before. I think the breaking of sleep at usual hours. has proved more wearing on the nerves than the sensational and
Doctor's Death on Duty.
AND SHANGHAL
The above named Steamer hav-
are hereby notified to send in ing arrived, Consignees of cargo their Bills of Lading for counter- signature, and to take immediate delivery of cargo from alongside, Cargo remaining undelivered on 4th July 1918, at 5 P.M. will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense, and delivery must then be taken from the Storage charges will be naseŽ5- Company's Godown.
5 P.LL,
will be affected.
left the train, for the next day. lately had been fighting with theed on all cargo remaining un- when the train was a hundred Russians against the Central miles or so beyond Odessa, he, Powers. They said they had delivered on 8th July 1918, at No Fire Insurance whatever with his engine and "home," just returned from a severe battle caught up with the train. He with the Germans between
No Claim will be recognised begged the French officers to take Kiev and Kurek, and many
them Were
wounded. after the Goods has left the A dostor's death while attend him back on their own terms, of
All chafed and damaged cargo exaggerated taking refuge in ing & patient was reported at The French declined to reinstate They seserted that this action on Steamer or Godown. oellers. My "mission" has en-Hackney inquest. Deceased was the old engineer, and the last seen their part had saved the Ameri abled me to mix at first hand with Dr. Christopher Towell, fifty-four of him he was taking his engine van mission, as viherwise the will be landed into the Com- say exodus there may have been of Upper Clapton-road. He had and box-car, backward on the Germane would he been in pany's Godown, where they will Kazek before the Americans arrive examined on 8th July, 1918,
st 10 AM. of Parisiace from Paris.
complained of feeling ill, and return trip to south Russia.
No Claim will be recognised if My military pase, though not after placing the thermometer On the second day out fromed there.
The Mission arrived in Moscow filed after the 15th July, 1918. applying to Paris, impressed the under the arm of his patient, a Odesas, when the train bearing
T. DAIGO, railway officials enough for them schoolmsater's wife, he went the Americans was about 200 on March 16, The trip northward
Manager, to let me goon the platform while downstairs and died almest im- miles north of that city, one of to the Mourmansk coast and the passengere were crowding into mediately from valvular disesse the doctors saw a fisah of fire thence to England was, without the oarn an hour and more ahead of the heart.
away off on the horison. It danger of German interference.
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